It was one of the school's strategies to teach me with discipline, hoping that I could learn good virtues during my stay with the varsity.
I can say that my entire experience with the basketball varsity was a big factor that contributed to my self-development. Every game events, basketball activities such as practices, work-outs, and the varsity's voluntary participation to community services, have instilled within me good behavior, attitude, and positive outlook in life. From the game events, I learned the value of team-work and cooperation. From the basketball practices and work-outs, I learned the value of self-discipline. From the community services participated by the varsity, I learned how to value other people. After some time of being with the varsity, I realized that these values are not just present in me whenever I spend time with the team. Instead, I realized that even when I am off the field,…...
The Xi-Cheung PartnershipSummaryThe case of Xi Jianping and Cheung's dye factory in China is a clear example of the challenges that can arise in a business venture. The two men had ambitious plans but made several mistakes that led to their factory's bankruptcy. Xi had no experience managing a factory. Cheung did, but he was also okay with cutting corners and skirting regulations. Together, they did not make the best team. They did not consider the environmental and legal impact of their operations, nor did they provide adequate benefits to their workers. They lacked thorough planning, and proceeded with the business almost willy-nilly as though they could take on a venture like this without having to put in much work beforehand. As a result, their factor suffered from ineffective management, high turnover, unsafe working conditions, and more. Eventually, it closed. However, despite these setbacks, Xi saw the experience as an…...
mla
References
Afsar, B., Al?Ghazali, B., & Umrani, W. (2020). Retracted: Corporate social responsibility, work
meaningfulness, and employee engagement: The joint moderating effects of incremental moral belief and moral identity centrality. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 27(3), 1264-1278.
Bennett, V. M., & Levinthal, D. A. (2017). Firm lifecycles: Linking employee incentives and
From the perspective of Fielders Contingency Theory of Leadership (Northhouse Figure 6.), hat do you elch's score would be on the LPC Scale?
The Fiedler Contingency Theory suggests that leaders who are motivated by situational parameters, or who are task-oriented, will tend to take a lest humanist approach to their responsibilities. The way in which Jack elch would objectively eliminate countless underperforming divisions of GE suggests that he was decidedly task orientated in his leadership approach. This, Fiedler suggests, would make him a low scorer on the LPC scale.
elch's core Leadership Orientation/Motivation would be change. elch can be clearly identified as a transformative or change-driven leader. Indeed, he would step into the company during a recession and verging on the need for a dramatic modernization and revitalization.
Though there may have existed some concern at the start of his tenure over whether or not elch was suited…...
mla
Works Cited:
Northouse, P.G. (2013). Leadership: Theory and Practice, 6th Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
administration of the "LMX 7 Questionnaire" and the "Sample Items from the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) Form 5X-Short" of the course text, Leadership: Theory and Practice. An analysis concerning how responses to both questionnaires indicate a personal leadership philosophy is followed by a description concerning any questionnaire results that were surprising. Finally, the paper provides an analysis concerning the impact that the characteristics of the Leadership-Member Exchange Theory and Transformational Leadership might have on a personal leadership style and how these characteristics might help an individual become a more effective leader.
The results that emerged from the completion of the LMX 7 Questionnaire and the MLQ Form 5X-Short form the basis for a personal leadership philosophy, a philosophy that might not otherwise be formalized. Indeed, many if not most people go through their workday lives without giving much thought to what style of leadership or followership they are using, and…...
mla
References
LMX questionnaire. (2015). University of North Carolina. Retrieved from uncw.edu/nottinghamj/documents/slides6/Northouse6e%20Ch8%20LMX%20Survey. pdf.http://people.
A current issue that has been problematic for the current President concerns foreign policy. The public has not been thoroughly convinced that the manner in which the United States has confronted and managed issues internationally is optimal. This is due in great part to a lack of vision on behalf of the president, or an inability to effectively communicate this vision to the public in order to gain confidence and support.
The next President will be an individual with strong ethics, who also has an in-depth understanding of the complex nature of international events and issues. This next President will demonstrate a developed, informed vision, which will serve as a foundational basis for all decisions regarding foreign and domestic policy. Furthermore, the president will be able to gain support, and effectively unite the public in their vision collectively....
How the Personal Qualities of George ashington and His Particular Circumstances Facilitated His Rise to the Become the First President of the United StatesThe recent nationwide e racial strife that has rocked the United States has galvanized public attention on the nations Founding Fathers whose lives have been subjected to increasingly close scrutiny to determine if they are worthy of continued adoration and respect. Indeed, even formerly sacrosanct figures in U.S. history including George ashington, among others, have become the focus of criticism by modern Americans because they owned slaves while simultaneously and hypocritically advocating for a new country where everyone was equal. The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the relevant literature to identify the personal qualities of George ashington and to determine how these qualities and his particular circumstances facilitated his rise to the first presidency of the Unites States. Following…...
mla
Works CitedEllis, Joseph J. His Excellency: George Washington. New York: Vintage Books, 2004. ISBN 1 – 4000-3253-9.Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Vintage Press, 2002. ISBN-10: 0375705244Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN - 10: 0300097557>Locke, Joseph L and Wright, Ben. The American Yawp: A massively collaborative open U.S. history textbook. Stanford, CA: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, 2019.
Leadership Research
Models of leadership and management
Comparison and contrast of leadership models
Application of leadership model: Case of Mark Zuckerberg
Table 1- Leadership Table
Leadership Research
Leadership in public and private sector businesses is important for the growth of these businesses. Of late, many researchers have thoroughly investigated the role leadership in promoting businesses. Researchers have also tried to explore the common characteristics of global business leaders that have led their businesses to successful heights. Different models of effective leadership in corporations have also been drafted. One major aspect of leaders being explored in their ability to inspire people surrounding them and use this inspiration to achieve results that could be achieved without having complete trust of followers. While followers might be hard to make for a leader, and yet harder to retain, few researchers have put forth consolidated models of inspirational leaders that effectively make and retain followers. Two such models that will be…...
Leadership
Attila the Hun; Collaborative, Driven and Leadership Qualities
Leaders have followers, but the way in which this is achieved may vary. esearch may not have identified a singular set of characteristics or qualities which are always present, but there is general agreement on some qualities and styles that leaders may utilize, these include the collaborative, driven and ethical leadership styles. These are often applied in the modern context of leaders within the commercial context. However, if qualities of leader that are advocated today are valid, they will also be seen in the leaders of the past, as seen with the examining of Alexander the Great by Mintzberg (et al., 2008). Another leader who may be considered is that of Attila the Hun; a man that is portrayed as a barbarian in many texts, but must have had some leadership qualities to gain such a strong and long-term following. As the King…...
mla
References
Chrislip, D; Larson, C, (1994), Collaborative leadership, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
Mintzberg Henry, Ahlstrand Bruce, Lampel Joseph B, (2008), Strategy Safari: The Complete Guide Through the Wilds of Strategic Management, Financial Times / Prentice Hall
Roberts, W, (1990), Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, Business Plus
Leadership SME
Leadership Strategy from the Top Down: Lessons from the Boardroom in Small and Medium Enterprises
Leadership and management theories and strategies have proliferated at a rapid rate in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as organizations have grown larger and more complex and have faced pressures of a much faster pace of business. The demands made on leaders of business organizations and the need for strong leadership in navigating the ever-more changeable waters of modern business have grown along with businesses themselves, in both the degree to which leadership can affect operations and overall success as well as in the number of tasks and knowledge areas that leaders are supposed to be able to handle. Much of the diversification and increased scrutiny of leadership theories, processes, and practices can be attributed to the increased importance and complexity of leadership positions.
In something of an irony, however, the many different leadership theories and…...
mla
References
Demmer, W., Vickery, S., & Calantone, R. (2011). Engendering resilience in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): a case study of Demmer Corporation. International Journal of Production Research 49(18): 5395-413.
Gong, Y., Huang, J. & Farh, J. (2009). Employee learning orientation, transformational leadership, and employee creativity. Academy of Management Journal 52(4): 765-78.
Kotter, J. & Schlesinger, L. (2008). Choosing strategies for change. Harvard Business Review.
Kunze, F., Boehm, S. & Bruch, H. (2011). Age diversity, age discrimination climate and performance consequences -- a cross organizational stud. Journal of Organizational Behavior 32(2): 264-90.
Leadership style of the CEO of Google Inc. using situational leadershi
Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at the Stanford University in 1995 and by 1996, they built first search initially called Backub, which used links to establish the importance of the individual web pages. They continued working on the search engine, and in 1998, they founded the now worldwide-established Google Inc. Company (Larson, 2010). The company packs a lot considering the young age of the company as it now serves billions of users and customers around the globe. The mission of Google Inc. is to organize the information of the entire world and make it useful and accessible universally. The headquarters of the company is in 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View CA 94043. The company boasts and enjoys a vast number of employees across the globe, with an established management team representing a team of the most experienced professionals in…...
Leadership Self-Assessment Analysis
In the wake of the corporal scandals of Enron and the Arthur Anderson Company, there have been increased calls for strong ethical leadership. Leadership had always been regarded as a key factor in ensuring the effectiveness of any organization. However, new models are also being developed to challenge the limitations of the prevailing classical theories of leadership.
This paper argues for a tempered approach, one that combines effective leadership with good management. Both factors are important, since over-managed and under-led organizations tend to lose sight of their goals. By the same token, while charismatic leaders can lead their organizations to high levels of success, the lack of management skills means that such victories do not last in the long run.
The growing awareness of corporate and white-collar crime has likewise presented new challenges to the classical leadership model. Organization leaders should now be wary of lawsuits the way physicians fear…...
mla
References
Bolman, Lee G. And Deal, Terrence E. 1997. Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2nd ed.
Northouse, Peter G. 1997. Leadership: Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing.
They appaently need to see someone as actively involved in the leadeship pocess in ode to conside him o he a leade.
One of the chaacteistics that the students did mention was fainess. Each of them descibed scenaios in which they felt as if thei educational leades had not been fai. They peceived that some students wee given pefeential teatment. The easons that they cited fo this pefeential teatment vaied, though paental involvement at school and student involvement in athletics seems to be two common easons that they believed pincipals might teat some students bette than othes. They felt like this diffeential teatment was not beneficial, not only to the students who did not eceive the pefeential teatment, but also to the students who did. Anothe chaacteistic that the students found impotant was that the leades be nice to them; they found it difficult to elate to leades who wee…...
mla
references first, and discourage the teachers from challenging them and assigning a lot of homework. However, two of the parents believed that a student-first attitude meant that the educational leaders should be focused on ensuring that the children received the best education possible, with the goal of surpassing any state standards for minimum education requirements.
They also seemed to feel like educational leaders should be available. They seemed to find it very off-putting when educational leaders, particularly those on the administrative level, did not make themselves available to the parents. They wanted to be able to enter into a dialogue with them and feel as if the leaders were paying attention to their issues and concerns, rather than act as if parental concerns were somehow unimportant in the educational context.
Conclusion
There was very little overlap in the qualities that the three groups identified as being critical in an educational leader. Instead, each group of them seemed to focus on the qualities that would permit the educational leader to interact better with them. What this suggests is that an educational leader's effectiveness should not be assessed by a single group of individuals, but by a combination of people from all different areas. Moreover, it suggests that educational leaders need flexibility, so that they can be effective leaders for students, teachers and parents, despite the varying demands of each group.
Leadership
Over the decades, much research has been devoted to studying leadership traits and the qualities of an effective leader. Some of the approaches to assessing leadership include personality theory, as well as the qualitative approach to leadership research.
In the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, (1988), D.K. Simonton used the personality basis of leadership research that looks at the effectiveness of a leader as a result of particular personality traits. For this study, Simonton carried out an archival analysis of the personalities and personal histories of thirty-nine American presidents, and related that to their perceived effectiveness as Heads of State. An analysis of eight-two separate personality characteristics were ultimately reduced to five general categories; "The interpersonal, charismatic, deliberative, creative, and neurotic styles." (Simonton, 1988).
Simonton makes the point that research into leadership is frequently concerned with the question of whether a great leader is born, or becomes a great leader according…...
mla
Bibliography
Bryman, A., Stephens, M., & Campo, C. (1996). The importance of context:
Qualitative research and the study of leadership. Leadership Quarterly, 7(3),
Simonton, D.K. (1988). Presidential style: Personality, biography and performance.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55(6), 928-936.
Leadership
Our persistent approach to the initial years of the twenty-first century, necessitates to recall the crucial incidents of the previous century and to foresee the events to be come across in future more specifically in the ensuing years. The commercial class considered to constitute the largest section in the society much concerned bout the future events. Taking all the technological advancements that took place during the past century in to consideration the corporations are to strive for maintaining the competitiveness in the international market relentlessly. Taking together all the factors one can visualize the extraordinary variations that have profound impact on the global trade and commerce. The veracity of global economy combined with the dissemination of the information technology provided adequate impetus to the corporations large and small to compete in a new dimension. This lays emphasis of the effectiveness of management and leadership skills as a determinant for the…...
Most conclusions on this approach were vague or indecisive in terms of social, psychological or mental significance (ice, 1978, 1981; Graen et al., 1972; Ashour, 1973).
Furthermore, over the years, many scholars have come to the realization that leadership is situational and hence there are many realistic settings like the environment, the employees, the resources, etc. that determine the characteristics needed in a leader as well as his/her business approach (Hershey and Blanchard, 1977, 1984). This is why it is important to first understand the different types of scenarios that a leader can face and then use those scenarios as the foundation on which most leadership techniques and approaches are built. This idea of leadership being situational is very helpful in outlining the methods through which leadership can be developed and has taken up a good part of the last three-decade of research (Mckenna, Boyd and Yost, 2007).
There were many…...
mla
References
Adler, a. (1946). Understanding human nature. New York: Permabooks.
Ashour, a.S. (1973). The Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness: An Evaluation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 9: 335-76.
Bandura, a. (1997). Self-efficacy. The Exercise of Control. New York: W.H. Freeman. (Bass, B.M. 1985). Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations. New York: The Free Press.
Bennis, W., and B. Nanus. (1985). Leaders. New York: Harper and Row.
## Refining a Thesis Statement on the Making of a Leader
### Original Thesis Statement:
> The journey of becoming a leader is a complex and multifaceted process, shaped by innate traits, environmental factors, and deliberate actions.
### Refined Thesis Statement:
> The emergence of exceptional leaders results from a dynamic interplay of inherent qualities, nurturing environments, and conscious efforts to develop and harness leadership skills.
Improvements:
More specific: Focuses on the "making" of exceptional leaders rather than the general concept of leadership. Differentiates between inherent and developed traits: Recognizes that leadership qualities can be both innate and acquired through experience and training. Emphasizes the....
I. Introduction A. Definition of military and professional bearing B. Importance of military and professional bearing in various settings C. Thesis statement - The significance of military and professional bearing in shaping a successful career
II. Military Bearing A. Definition of military bearing B. Characteristics of military bearing such as discipline, respect, and integrity C. Importance of military bearing in the military and civilian sectors
III. Professional Bearing A. Definition of professional bearing B. Attributes of professional bearing such as attire, communication skills, and ethical behavior C. Importance of professional bearing in the workplace and in personal interactions
Thesis Statement: While the book "Band of Brothers" by Stephen E. Ambrose highlights the importance of key leadership traits in wartime, it also acknowledges that effective leadership is contingent upon the collective efforts of individuals, emphasizing the significance of teamwork, loyalty, and adaptability in the face of adversity.
To strengthen your thesis statement, you could focus on specific examples of leadership traits exhibited by the characters in "Band of Brothers" and how these traits contribute to the overall success of the Easy Company during wartime. Additionally, you could delve deeper into the concept of collective effort and teamwork, highlighting how individual....
Exceptional leaders possess a unique blend of qualities that empower them to inspire, motivate, and guide their teams to achieve extraordinary results. These qualities encompass a combination of personal attributes, communication skills, and strategic vision:
1. Visionary Mindset:
Exceptional leaders possess a clear and compelling vision for the future. They articulate their goals and aspirations with passion and enthusiasm, inspiring their followers to share their dreams and work towards a common purpose.
2. Integrity and Authenticity:
Trust is the cornerstone of effective leadership. Exceptional leaders demonstrate honesty, integrity, and consistency in their actions and words. They lead by example, setting high ethical....
Sign Up for Unlimited Study Help
Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library
of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.
